A team of Swiss researchers are claiming that their high-performance computer has added 12.8 trillion new digits to the number Pi, in a calculation that reached a record-breaking 62.8 trillion figures ...

It really isn’t necessary, but there is some geek cred to learning pi to some bizarre number of digits. One way to do that is via a piem — a mnemonic device that is easy to remember and gives you the ...

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Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi) – rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits – in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

In a 1992 piece called “The Mountains of Pi,” Richard Preston profiled two math geniuses named Gregory and David Chudnovsky. The Chudnovsky brothers had built their own supercomputer in their Upper ...